On this day in 1858, pioneer Mormon leader Lyman Wight, determined to lead his people back to the North following a premonition of the coming Civil War, died near San Antonio. Wight, born in...(Read More)

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ALLIGATOR POINT

ALLIGATOR POINT. Alligator Point, a narrow promontory at the western end of the small island formed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway across from Galveston Island (at 29°10' N, 95°07' W), is eighteen miles southeast of Angleton in extreme east central Brazoria County. The point consists of grass-covered sand dunes.

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